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Experiment ID
71
Pathogen
Rotavirus
Agent Strain
CJN strain (unpassaged)
Contains Preferred Model
No
Reference
Ward, R. L., Bernstein, D. I., Young, E. C., Sherwood, J. R., Knowlton, D. R., & Schiff, G. M. (1986). Human Rotavirus Studies in Volunteers: Determination of Infectious Dose and Serological Response to Infection. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 154, 5. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/154.5.871
Exposure Route
oral
Response
infection
Host type
human
# of Doses
8.00
Dose Units
FFU
Μodel
beta-Poisson
a
7.28E-02
N50
1.47E+03
LD50/ID50
1.47E+03
Description
Model data for rotavirus (CJN strain) in the human 
Dose Symptoms and infection No symptoms and infection Total
9E-03 0 7 7
0.09 0 7 7
0.9 1 6 7
9 5 6 11
90 2 5 7
900 4 4 8
9000 3 4 7
9E+04 2 1 3

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom		 χ20.95,1 
p-value 		χ20.95,m-k 
p-value
Exponential 103 99.5 7 3.84 
0 		14.1 
0
Beta Poisson 3.14 6 12.6 
0.791
Beta-Poisson fits better than exponential; cannot reject good fit for beta-Poisson.

 

Optimized parameters for the beta-Poisson model, from 10000 bootstrap iterations
Parameter MLE estimate Percentiles
0.5% 2.5% 5% 95% 97.5% 99.5%
α 7.28E-02 9.93E-04 9.95E-04 9.96E-04 1.32E-01 1.46E-01 1.83E-01
N50 1.47E+03 6.55E-03 1.85E-02 4.58E-02 5.47E+06 1.82E+31 6.68E+122

 

Parameter scatter plot for beta Poisson model ellipses signify the 0.9, 0.95 and 0.99 confidence of the parameters.

beta Poisson model plot, with confidence bounds around optimized model

References